Up All Night (The Waifs album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Up All Night

| type = studio

| artist = The Waifs

| cover = Up All Night (The Waifs album) coverart.jpg

| alt =

| released = 13 January 2003

| recorded = 2002

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Folk

| length = 47:44

| label = Jarrah

| producer = The Waifs, Chris Thompson, Steven Schram

| prev_title = Sink or Swim

| prev_year = 2000

| next_title = A Brief History...

| next_year = 2004

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Up All Night

| type = studio

| single1 = London Still

| single1date = 2002

| single2 = Lighthouse

| single2date = 2003

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r627255 Allmusic Review]

}}

Up All Night is the fourth studio album by Australian folk band The Waifs, first released by Jarrah in January 2003. Critics reacted more favourably to this release and it has been the band's biggest album to date.

Up All Night debuted on the Australian ARIA album chart at No. 3 and 12 months later had shipped over 140,000 copies, garnering a double platinum accreditation.{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=The+Waifs|title=The Waifs discography |last=Hung |first=Steffen |work=Australian Charts Portal |publisher=Hung Medien |access-date=16 January 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2004.htm |title=ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 Albums |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=16 January 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807133822/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2004.htm |archive-date=7 August 2008 }}

Their hard work was rewarded at the ARIA Music Awards of 2003 where they won Best Independent Release, Best Blues and Roots Album for Up All Night, as well as Engineer of the Year and Producer of the Year for Chris Thompson's work on the album.ARIA Music Awards for the Waifs:

• Search Results for 'Waifs': {{cite web

|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/search/?view=list&text=Waifs

|title=Search Results for 'Waifs'

|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

|access-date=16 January 2018

}}

• 2002 winners and nominees: {{cite web

|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2002

|title=Winners By Year 2002

|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

|access-date=16 January 2018

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/63V8htKTo?url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2002

|archive-date=27 November 2011

}}

• 2003 winners and nominees: {{cite web

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235713/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2003

|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2003

|title=Winners By Year 2003

|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)

|archive-date=26 September 2007

|access-date=16 January 2018

|url-status=dead

}} The media celebrated with them, calling them an "overnight success 11 years in the making!".

In some parts of North America, the album was packaged with a bonus sampler of Waifs songs.